Just a quiet week working on a couple sets and beginning the image generation for the final episode. Made a couple of little tweaks to the final battle to make it a little more immersive. A little in the vain of the Krillen battle, however a far more efficient use of images. Much of my effort in the final release will be to make this battle look as spectacular as possible.
2022-01-28 07:13:22 +0000 UTC
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Just a quick aside first, to address a minor issue that is being reported in playthroughs. Some players are getting 'stuck' in a Gideon loop, where they visit the club and are unable to set a new destination, via speaking with Tanya on the bridge. Getting out of this loop is easy enough, as you can just set a new destination, immediately upon return to the ship, using the map interface. If you would rather not use the map interface, by replacing the club.rpyc file in the game folder with the ...
2022-01-21 05:08:02 +0000 UTC View PostFor those not paying attention, Callisto v0.90 was released yesterday to $5 and $10 Patreons. It will be available to the remainder of Patreons on Sunday 16/1/22. The 4k images are also now available to $5 and $10 Patreons at the usual location. If you can't track down the suitable post, just message me and I'll forward the link.
After publishing the official release, I wrote the first draft of...
2022-01-14 08:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe results of the following will be used to balance the outcomes of the final battle in v1.00. Please only vote once you know your score at the conclusion of v0.90. Your final score will be listed on the second last screen of v0.90, just before the save game reminder.
2022-01-13 09:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostCallisto v0.90 is now available for download by all Patreons. Should you identify any issues, please report them within the beta-testing channel on Discord - https://discord.gg/bWRxGFG.
Callisto v0.90 PC - https://mega.nz/file/6zxggBLQ#RvjrpcLalnuexPMnU-k8KXYXfcejgAwn-ZDmRpEslOU
Callisto v0.90 Mac...
2022-01-13 09:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostRapidly closing in on the completion of images required for v0.90. Working through the final scene currently and may also add a couple more images to the Hydas event. Then it's just a quick play test of content added since the beta and release to $5 and $10 Patreons.
In addition to the actual images cr...
2022-01-07 05:46:15 +0000 UTC View PostI would like to thank all my Patreons for the support over the past year. Best wishes for 2022.
At this time, I thought it would be wise to outline the development work to be undertaken over the next year. As most of you are aware, Callisto is coming to a close and will be complete at version 1.0. Version 0.9 will be released in mid January and then it's just a matter of wrapping up the content, with the final encounter and epilogues. Whilst I haven't done the detailed outline for v1.0,...
2021-12-31 08:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe beta was released earlier this week to $10 Patreons. On the back of this, I have completed the posing of the animations for v0.90. These will render out over the next couple of weeks. I also spent a little time working on the news stories, to be added to the full version.
The Bikini week polls have now come to a close with the skimpiest bikini's winning most of the polls. These will all feature in the Hydas event, that I will work on first thing next year. I will be going with the w...
2021-12-24 06:07:09 +0000 UTC View PostCrunched through the remaining event images and the coding, allowing me to get the alpha out yesterday for testing and proof reading by the development team. I have to give them a chance to do their thing, following which the beta will be released mid next week as planned.
Actually running a few days ahead of schedule at this point and will take advantage by working on the animations prior to t...
2021-12-17 07:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostClosing in on the last events to be rendered for the beta, due to be released before Christmas. I will polish off the 'Earth - Part One' renders on the weekend, which will leave just 'Invasion of Telesto' and some coding / alpha testing to be completed to release the beta. During the refining of the story, I have elected to delete one small event from v0.90, as it didn't really add anything. I had already completed a script and an animation for it, however the results were uninspiring. This e...
2021-12-10 08:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe final poll for bikini week will be posted tomorrow. All of these polls are open until 23rd Dec and I will post the preferred alternatives in my pre-Christmas post. I may not be able to use the poll winner in every single case, as this would mean that many of the outfits would be similar. From what I have seen, the skimpier the swimsuit, the more popular it appears to be. However this does mean that the same assets seem to be winning every poll.
Creation of images is proceeding at pa...
2021-12-03 06:48:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe writing / scripting first pass is complete, however I will be tweaking the Hydas event a little in order to wrangle in the image count a little. The final image count will be around 550. This is a little higher than the original plan and also more than where I sat last week. As a direct result, this has pushed out the forecast date a few days from the extra content. I am however committed to getting the beta out before Christmas, hence I will likely have to do a little overtime in Decembe...
2021-11-26 14:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostHave spent the week coding and writing the content for v0.90. It has been going quite well and will polish off the remainder of this task over the weekend. Given what I have been up to, I don't have any eye candy from the last 5 days, however I'll give you a sneak peek of one of the sets I did last week. It may look a little familiar, however someone has been tinkering in the workshop.
What the...
2021-11-19 14:03:41 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly for those that haven't noticed, Callisto v0.81 has been released to all Patreons. In the meantime, I have already started work on v0.90. Early in the week, I created the first draft of the outline, which has since been tweaked, after feedback from the development team. In parallel with this, I have been developing the new sets to be used in v0.90. It's always important to determine the quality of the potential images that can be created for game events.
2021-11-12 11:17:27 +0000 UTC
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Callisto v0.82 is now available for download by all Patreons. Should you identify any issues, please report them within the beta-testing channel on Discord - https://discord.gg/bWRxGFG.
Callisto v0.82 PC - https://mega.nz/file/6jZTBIha#eHnsIAZ0Polu0Uwxvxifn6SdLX1QxhVW-8G8eVHXERk
Callisto v0.82 Mac...
2021-11-09 01:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe Callisto beta for v0.80 was released to $10 Patreons a couple of days ago. It includes all content that will be contained in the final release. There have already been multiple playthroughs by the development team and the proofreading was also completed and implemented. Simple summary, is that it should be very close to the final version, with only items raised during beta testing, requiring addressing.
2021-11-05 05:43:17 +0000 UTC
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The alpha testing has started and I have done a run through of the content in the current version. The only components missing, are the images for one of the miscellaneous events and the news story. The compiled game is with the development team, that will assist in identifying significant bugs and undertake the proof reading. Everything is on track to release the beta next week.
Already starte...
2021-10-29 06:06:49 +0000 UTC View PostBeen a week of head down, tail up, on image creation. Things have gone well and the planned content, plus a little extra, was completed. The ball content has been completed and all of the images have been fully processed. I am now in the middle of the content related to the Hive. One such completed image is below.
I believe the ball events provide a nice balance between developing the story and...
2021-10-22 04:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostRight in the middle of the image creation process and am immersed in the Ball event renders. These turned out to be a little more challenging than expected, due to the number of characters required in order to fill out the room. With my current hardware, I can generally get two characters and a background to render on my GPU, without taking in any steps to optimise. When you have an image with 26 figures, well this gets more complicated. Thankfully I have managed to get past this memory manag...
2021-10-15 14:18:05 +0000 UTC View PostEach day working through the images required for each of the scenes. The work is a little mundane, however happy with the results that are being realised. Have been working on all of the council meeting scenes and will complete these tomorrow. Next week it's on to the ball scenes, where I will put the dress polls to use.
Will spend some time this weekend filling out characters for the ballroom ...
2021-10-08 13:57:34 +0000 UTC View PostOn to the process of posing all of the images for the upcoming release. The animations rendered quicker than expected, so I have have done the post processing and encoding of these ahead of schedule. Had a couple of real world activities to attend to this week, hence the image posing was a little less than hoped. I will put in some effort over the weekend to catch up a little. Happy with the results of the tweaked courtyard asset, however it does require additional iterations to converge. Jus...
2021-10-01 10:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostSpent the week posing the animations required for the next episode. Ended up adding a few and have managed to pose all but one of the intended animations. The one remaining is the landing animation to Pheobe, which is relatively straight forward. Already have the render queue cranking through these, which will continue for the next couple of weeks.
The development team has run through the final...
2021-09-24 09:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostFinished off the script for v0.80 earlier this week and have been working through the various sets, to be used in the next episode. Like to do this up front, as it allows the procurement of additional assets if required. Thankfully, for this version as least, all of the sets are squared away. Below is just a test render of a set to be used in the next version. Hope it doesn't give too much away.
Been a productive week, however a slight change of priority to the work undertaken. As you may have seen, I have posted a couple of polls for the preferred dress for the Orion ball, that cover options for Alice and Rachel. Over the course of next week, I will add additional polls to cover Julia, Tanya and Tiffany. For story purposes, I need for Kara and Lia to have a certain look. I have already selected / designed the dresses for these two girls.
I was intending on doing all of the dre...
2021-09-10 05:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostPlease find the links bellow to a set of 28 wallpapers for Callisto. You can now have your favourite Callisto crew member on your desktop. There are separate downloads for 1080p and 4k versions. Thanks go to Krull, whom undertook the graphics design work, based upon the source images I provided.
Wallpaper Links:
Preparatory work in underway for the next instalment of Callisto. I have been working on the outline for v0.80, along with the politics outline for the remainder of the game. It's actually necessary at this time, to list out all of the major events in the remainder of the game and the decisions available to the player. By knowing all of the events remaining, I can appropriately allocated them to the remaining episodes.
I have also been working on a couple of the sets to be used in the f...
2021-09-03 05:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostCallisto v0.72 is now available for download by all Patreons. Should you identify any issues, please report them within the beta-testing channel on Discord - https://discord.gg/bWRxGFG.
Callisto v0.72 PC - https://mega.nz/file/CmogAYoZ#4IkQ6VoKY3dHNRyA9bQwmX3P-lC2t3uFwv7nibSy6a0
Callisto v0.72 Mac...
2021-08-28 06:35:28 +0000 UTC View PostHave done some minor tweaking to the first option, from the first poll, and also added an alternative design. It was necessary to change the design slightly, to accommodate a wider format. If the vote is close, I may switched between the two of them on occasion. Please let me know which option you prefer.
Option 1:
Option 2:
2021-08-28 02:07:52 +0000 UTC
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Callisto v0.70 was made available to $10 and $5 Patreons on Wednesday. Availability to $1 Patreons will be extended tomorrow (~6am Saturday GMT). To date, I have not seen any reported bugs from player testing, so that either means the code is fairly sound or everyone is saving it for the weekend.
I have been spending the past few days trying to flesh out the v0.80 outline. All of the main stories are resolved, however considering what side events should be created to supplement the epis...
2021-08-27 08:11:34 +0000 UTC View PostHave been spending a little time creating a new banner for the game. Of the two alternatives below, which do you believe has the greatest impact, to draw players to the game?
Option 1:
Option 2:
